Domestic violence help in Honduras
A free directory of real contacts — not a form or a self-service tool — for finding help in any of the 18 departments of Honduras: emergency lines, courts, CONADEH, Módulos de Atención Integral Especializado (MAIE) and support organisations.
If you are in danger right now:
911 (general emergencies) and 114 (the free Dirección Policial de Investigación line specifically for domestic violence) work anywhere in the country, at any hour. See all emergency lines.
What do you need to do now?
Find your department
Each page lists the court, the CONADEH office, the MAIE and the support organisations for that department.
How to read this directory
Each phone number shows how reliable it is, based on what we were able to confirm directly:
Where a contact has no confirmed direct line, 911, 114 and the CONECTA (https://conecta.gob.hn) line always work as a fallback.
What counts as domestic violence under the law
It is not only hitting. Article 5 of the Ley contra la Violencia Doméstica defines four forms, and the three that leave no mark count just as much:
- Physical violence — any act or omission causing harm or damage to a woman’s bodily integrity, where it is not classified as a crime in the Código Penal.
- Psychological violence — any act or omission whose purpose is to degrade or control her actions, behaviour, beliefs and decisions: intimidation, manipulation, direct or indirect threats, humiliation, isolation, confinement, surveillance, insults, blackmail, ridicule, humiliating or degrading treatment, or threatening to take her children away from her.
- Sexual violence — any conduct involving threat or intimidation that affects her sexual integrity or self-determination, such as unwanted sexual relations or denial of contraception and protection, where it is not classified as a crime.
- Patrimonial and/or economic violence — any act or omission involving the loss, denial, removal, destruction or withholding of her belongings, personal documents, property, valuables, rights or economic resources intended to cover her needs or those of the family group. It includes reducing or withholding her income and failure to meet maintenance obligations.
The Law starts from the premise that all of this is bound up with an unequal exercise of power: conduct aimed at limiting the free development of a woman’s personality on grounds of gender. If what you are living through fits any of the four, the Law protects you — and to report it you do not need a lawyer.